· Public charity
The Prosperity Foundation Inc
Cultivate and grow black communities in connecticut through capacity-building solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $1,984,624 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,212,133 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $227,509 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $763k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+2 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE HILLS CIVIC | $471,000 |
| HARTFORD RENAIS | $378,624 |
| EFFICIENCY FOR ALL INC | $150,000 |
| OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC | $100,000 |
| GREATER HARTFORD YMCA | $100,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY DEV CORP | $25,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS UFWB CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ELM CITY GO KARTING ASSOCIATION | $22,500 |
| FIXING FATHERS INC | $22,500 |
| EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC | $22,500 |
| HOT SHOT SERVICESHOT SHOT BASKETBALL CAMP | $22,500 |
| JAMES HILLHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL BROWN GIRLS COOKING | $22,500 |
| DESTINED TO SUCCEED INC | $21,163 |
| FIREBIRD SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC | $20,000 |
| CULTURALLY CORRECT CREATIVE INC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 91% of The Prosperity Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BHBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $516k · revenue +132%
- ECEMERGE CONNECTICUT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +15%
- FFFixing Fathers One Dad At A Time Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HRHARTFORD RENAISSANCE DISTRICT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $379k · 97% of their budget
- EFEFFICIENCY FOR ALLone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Providing programs and services to city of Hartford and its surrounding communities
Urban Fresh Gardens is a non-profit urban farm and education center dedicated to teaching tangible and intangible skills to youths ages 14 to 18. Program participants are provided with an opportunity to learn transferable life skills,…
Youth Resiliency Program is a 6-8 week bootcamp that teaches soft skills for successful living. It utilitzes a curriculum that guides youth away from negative behavior patterns and towards positivity.
Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential
Leap empowers young people to be leaders who create a nurturing community for children in need. we believe that families in all neighborhoods deserve access to learning opportunities that inspire a broad world view and encourage young…
Develop local youth in soccer skills and team play
Creative Youth Productions Inc CYP mission is to develop youth leaders through the performing arts. CYP is committed to using the youth's voice organizationally, programmatically and creatively. CYP's goal is to acquire leadership,…
Working with trouble youth
Enrichment and youth outreach
community and workplace development
To holistically empower, support, and encourage marginalized youth, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, to become self-sufficient and successfully transition into adulthood.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities for Generations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sons of Thunder. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD RENAISSANCE DISTRICT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EFFICIENCY FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC ↗
- Who funds READY INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Fixing Fathers One Dad At A Time Inc ↗
- Who funds D E S T I N E D TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds Prosperity House Inc ↗
- Who funds URISE VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Resurgence Now Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MPact Mentoring Inc ↗
- Who funds EIR Urban Youth Boxing Inc ↗
- Who funds Hartford Lions Soccer Academy ↗
- Who funds SONS OF THUNDER ↗
- Who funds WINNING WAYS ↗
- Who funds Love Your Menses Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WORKPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNEEBEE PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Yale University · Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Prosperity Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Workplace Inc — 100% of income from government
- Efficiency for All — 82% of income from government
- Blue Hills Civic Association — 72% of income from government
- Communities for Generations Inc — 66% of income from government
- Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
- Ready Inc — 41% of income from government
- MPact Mentoring Inc — 21% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Huneebee Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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